I don’t make a habit of putting books down after picking them up. It bothers me to leave a book unfinished, but this particular book became so tedious that I had to stop.

The reader wants for answers, and badly. More than halfway through the book I still don’t have any to speak of. The main character isn’t very likable, and neither is anybody else in the story. The world-building was bizarre -- I faltered to make sense of it and piece together the implications. The plot is meandering and slow. By the time I reached a segment with significant action, I found that I had ceased to care about the main character’s fate.

After wrestling with the frustrating world-building and faint plot for several hours, I gave up altogether.